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kennedy in '63 and presidential candidate robert kennedy in '68. while so many americans think about those kennedys and wonder what might have been, ted kennedy was with us for 77 years. and in countless ways, he lifted the lives of hundreds of millions of people in the united states and around the world. >> david to his family, kennedy was the loving palt patriarch. a family statement released today says in part we've lost the irrelaysable center of our family and joyous light in our lives but the inspiration of his faith, optimism and perfect severance will live on in our hearts forever. most americans knew ted kennedy as the senior senator from massachusetts. hess achievements including health care, civil rights, education, family leave access for the disabled, improving working conditions. senator kennedy, by the way, wrote 2500 bills, 300 of them becoming law. >> he was also a driving force for peace in ireland and a persistent critic of the war in iraq. in the midst of it all, kennedy dominated the national political stage, a stage that had t
kennedy in '63 and presidential candidate robert kennedy in '68. while so many americans think about those kennedys and wonder what might have been, ted kennedy was with us for 77 years. and in countless ways, he lifted the lives of hundreds of millions of people in the united states and around the world. >> david to his family, kennedy was the loving palt patriarch. a family statement released today says in part we've lost the irrelaysable center of our family and joyous light in our...
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. >> robert kennedy wasn't a cool politician like his older brother jack. he was emotional, intense, full of passion. >> the inadequacy of human compassion, the effectiveness of our sensibility toward the sufferings of our fellows -- our fellow human beings throughout the world. >> and as the vietnam war death toll rose, and protesters took to the streets, bobby found his voice. >> you gain nothing by sitting down with a north vietnamese and see if you can resolve this conflict, and i'm in favor of doing this. >> but even though he wanted to redlam the white house, bobby wasn't ready to take on the president who was expanding the war, a war his brother had backed. >> he was quite frazzled that he wasn't going to win. but it became clear that we couldn't go through another four years of the johnson presidency. >> part of him said you don't undertake something unless you think you can win. part of him said you have to do what's right. >> while bobby anguished, another anti-war candidate stepped up. minnesota senator eugene mccarthy. in 1968, mccarthy, a virtu
. >> robert kennedy wasn't a cool politician like his older brother jack. he was emotional, intense, full of passion. >> the inadequacy of human compassion, the effectiveness of our sensibility toward the sufferings of our fellows -- our fellow human beings throughout the world. >> and as the vietnam war death toll rose, and protesters took to the streets, bobby found his voice. >> you gain nothing by sitting down with a north vietnamese and see if you can resolve this...
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it's distinct from the way robert kennedy and john kennedy were honored. when ted kennedy announced, a lot of his advisers said do it the same way that jack and bobby did. they declared their candidacies from the caucus room of the u.s. senate. they began their speeches with the same line. ted kennedy wanted to make the point, a, that he was a different person, and, b, that he was really oriented more toward boston, massachusetts, so he declared his candidacy instead up in boston. it's one of the landmark that is cortege will pass by very soon. >> michael, david is with us as well getting in on this sper tech ti perspective. we were talking earlier about some of the final moments or final days of senator kennedy's life and your familiarity with the family. what does that tell you that he's having singalongs up until his final breath on tuesday. he got up and greeted life i guess as he lived. >> that was the way he dealt with things. i mean, this is not a perfect linear life in which he had every day perfectly dealt with over the course of his 77 years. he
it's distinct from the way robert kennedy and john kennedy were honored. when ted kennedy announced, a lot of his advisers said do it the same way that jack and bobby did. they declared their candidacies from the caucus room of the u.s. senate. they began their speeches with the same line. ted kennedy wanted to make the point, a, that he was a different person, and, b, that he was really oriented more toward boston, massachusetts, so he declared his candidacy instead up in boston. it's one of...
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john kennedy was a idealogist and robert kennedy went to a radical in the late 1960s. it was the youngest member, ted. his compass was fixed on that liberal ideal and he never took his eyes off the ball i think partly because he wanted to atone however he could for all the bad things that had happened and that he in one case had been responsible for. >> we could talk about this for hours and we'll spend more time in upcoming weeks. look forward to your essay this afternoon and your book in a couple days. thanks for being with us. >> thanks a million, john. >> we want to get you caught up on other stories making news today. in less than two hours a convicted sex offender and his wife are scheduled to make their first appearance in a california courtroom. authorities say phillip garrido has admitted to kidnapping jaycee lee dugard back in 1991 when she was only 11 years old. they say he kept her captive in a backyard compound for 18 years and is the father of her two children. jaycee, now 29 years old, has been reunited with her mother. joining me now live is msnbc analy
john kennedy was a idealogist and robert kennedy went to a radical in the late 1960s. it was the youngest member, ted. his compass was fixed on that liberal ideal and he never took his eyes off the ball i think partly because he wanted to atone however he could for all the bad things that had happened and that he in one case had been responsible for. >> we could talk about this for hours and we'll spend more time in upcoming weeks. look forward to your essay this afternoon and your book...
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kennedy jr., who spoke with andrea mitchell earlier. >> she inspired me when i was 14 to spend 100 hours working in the column for the retard ed, this was upstate new york. how people treated these people at that time, she believed that you know, every human being has a soul and every soul is beloved by god. >> reporter: this is a woman who truly changed the world. who changed the way not only we here in america treat and appreciate those who suffer from intellectual challenges, but also the world. she leaves a family of five children, 19 grandchildren, and a legacy that stretches all around the world. >> thanks so much for that report. >>> laura ling and euna lee spoke out for the first time since returning from north korea. the women thanked their supporters. >> we are so, so very grateful for all of your love and support. >> we're so happy to be back with our families. it was hard time in our life. >> ling and lee returned last week after 140 days held captive. they were sentenced to 12 years hard labor, but then were freed after bill clinton met with kim jong-il. special interest gro
kennedy jr., who spoke with andrea mitchell earlier. >> she inspired me when i was 14 to spend 100 hours working in the column for the retard ed, this was upstate new york. how people treated these people at that time, she believed that you know, every human being has a soul and every soul is beloved by god. >> reporter: this is a woman who truly changed the world. who changed the way not only we here in america treat and appreciate those who suffer from intellectual challenges, but...
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this as best we can tell robert fitzgerald kennedy jr. and max kennedy, two of the late senators nephews taking some of their relatives out for a boat ride as they are passing the mya. this is a spectacular day, the type of day ted used to enjoy riding his mya on the beautiful waters yesterday. to honor him nantucket light ship late in the evening lit a beacon to honor his life and service to this country. today at noon the motorcade -- there will be a private mass held inside the kennedy family home. at 12:30. it's been moved up 30 minutes from what we had initially been told of the motorcade will begin travel, carlos, 70 miles to boston. should take them an hour and 15 minutes. this will be a historic root they will take, passing through not just hyannis port. the mayor will toll the bell 47 times to honor his year in the senate, finally arriving at john f. kennedy presidential museum. he will lie in state beginning today open to the public to visit. we're told members of the kennedy family will be there to greet guests as they did for
this as best we can tell robert fitzgerald kennedy jr. and max kennedy, two of the late senators nephews taking some of their relatives out for a boat ride as they are passing the mya. this is a spectacular day, the type of day ted used to enjoy riding his mya on the beautiful waters yesterday. to honor him nantucket light ship late in the evening lit a beacon to honor his life and service to this country. today at noon the motorcade -- there will be a private mass held inside the kennedy...
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kennedy and john f. kennedy and, of course, there will be so much contributed from the life and memory of senator ted kennedy. joining us is nbc's anne thompson. i wonder if you can set the scene for us at this hour. >> reporter: people are getting ready, as you can imagine, for the arrival of the body of senator edward kennedy and the kennedy family. there is a group of people who have stood out here in the sun for the last 90 minutes. there is a line that stretches way past the point that i can see. there is another line here that is three people deep just lined up to try to catch a glimpse of the family and, of course, the coffin of senator kennedy. this is a show of gratitude. this is a show of appreciation. this is a way for the people of massachusetts to thank the man who has served them for some 47 years and who has been involved in their lives, whether they know him or not, they feel as if he has been involved in their lives. as i told you, i walked down the line, and i was just struck by the mix
kennedy and john f. kennedy and, of course, there will be so much contributed from the life and memory of senator ted kennedy. joining us is nbc's anne thompson. i wonder if you can set the scene for us at this hour. >> reporter: people are getting ready, as you can imagine, for the arrival of the body of senator edward kennedy and the kennedy family. there is a group of people who have stood out here in the sun for the last 90 minutes. there is a line that stretches way past the point...
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as i said, senator kennedy, frankly, back in 1968 after his brother, robert, was assassinated was not a controversial figure. he was a well-liked kennedy. he had a -- big gregarious fell oh wonderful smile. he had not become, if you will, the icon of american liberalism and the -- figure on the left that the conservatives made so much money off of by -- in fund-raising and things like that. but for those 50 years or 40 years after that, everybody who came in touch with him were finding out now and everybody who had an encounter with him, i met him and he invited me over to his home and he did not need to do that but i -- ex-nixon aide or ex-reagan aide. everybody's personal encounter with him was -- i mean, they looked back on it well. they looked back on it well. and i think that's true of everybody that's coming up there now and this city here, in washington, certainly up in boston. >> pat, stay with us. we want to say good-bye to our good friends, mike barnicle and congressman bill delahunt. guys, i know you have to go into the church. we greatly appreciate you all being here. we a
as i said, senator kennedy, frankly, back in 1968 after his brother, robert, was assassinated was not a controversial figure. he was a well-liked kennedy. he had a -- big gregarious fell oh wonderful smile. he had not become, if you will, the icon of american liberalism and the -- figure on the left that the conservatives made so much money off of by -- in fund-raising and things like that. but for those 50 years or 40 years after that, everybody who came in touch with him were finding out now...
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. >> robert kennedy's impassioned 1968 campaign had little in common with the well oiled kennedy campaign machine that made jack president eight years earlier. the bobby kennedy campaign. what was different about that from what you remember and knew about the jack kennedy campaigns? >> well, it was a lot less organized. as you know, my father was very ambivalent as to whether to run and so it was put together more in a haphazard way. it was his spirit that got things through rather than the organization. >> there was this enormous, enormous surge. everywhere he went, of youthful enthusiasm. it was extraordinary. grabbing and mauling him and snatching his cuff links and kids on tricycles and bikes pumping along the motorcade. >> well, it's going to be something. i'm so proud of having worked on this with the other people at msnbc and nbc. i think it's our best piece of work. it's an hour on the kennedy brothers and shows how they were a set of brothers, an amazing american family, brothers, and it's a celebration, an irish wake of sorts tonight on msnbc at 9:00. >> and of course we've been
. >> robert kennedy's impassioned 1968 campaign had little in common with the well oiled kennedy campaign machine that made jack president eight years earlier. the bobby kennedy campaign. what was different about that from what you remember and knew about the jack kennedy campaigns? >> well, it was a lot less organized. as you know, my father was very ambivalent as to whether to run and so it was put together more in a haphazard way. it was his spirit that got things through rather...